Exploring Various Coding Languages
Before deploying your Next.js application to production, you should implement a set of optimizations and best practices. This article covers automatic Next.js optimizations, development patterns, security, SEO, and performance tools to help you deliver a fast, secure, and reliable experience for real users.
With Next.js, you can build a Progressive Web App that behaves like a native mobile app — installable, fast, offline-capable, and able to send push notifications. This article walks you through each step: creating a manifest, setting up push notifications, registering a service worker, securing your app, and testing locally.
Redirects in Next.js can be handled at multiple levels — client, server, config, and proxy. This article explores each method, their use cases, and how to scale redirect management for thousands of routes using techniques like redirect maps and Bloom filters.
Next.js has built-in support for Sass and allows you to use SCSS or SASS with CSS Modules. It also provides the Script component to load third-party scripts efficiently, with support for loading strategies and experimental Web Worker offloading via Partytown.
Self-hosting a Next.js application gives you full control over caching, image optimization, environment variables, and deployment behavior. This article walks through how to configure your app for production, manage ISR and build cache, handle streaming, and optimize performance across containers and CDNs.
Next.js fully supports building SPAs with client-side rendering, fast transitions, and dynamic data fetching. This article explores common patterns for building SPAs using context, SWR, React Query, Server Actions, and shallow routing — while allowing you to progressively adopt server features as your app grows.
Next.js allows you to generate a static export of your application, turning each route into an independent HTML file. This article explains how to configure static output, use Server and Client Components, optimize images with Cloudinary, and host your app on static servers like Nginx.
Tailwind CSS v3 is fully compatible with Next.js and enables fast, scalable styling. This article walks through installing Tailwind, configuring template paths, adding CSS directives, and linking your global styles to the root layout.
Testing in Next.js keeps your app safe, fast, and reliable. This article walks through setting up four popular testing tools: Cypress for E2E and component tests, Jest for unit and snapshot tests, Playwright for cross-browser E2E, and Vitest for lightning-fast unit testing. It also includes a recommended testing strategy and CI/CD scripts.
@next/third-parties is an experimental library that simplifies and optimizes the integration of popular third-party tools in Next.js.. This article walks through how to use components like GoogleTagManager, GoogleAnalytics, GoogleMapsEmbed, and YouTubeEmbed to improve performance and developer experience across your app.
Next.js supports embedding videos using the <video> tag for self-hosted files and <iframe> for external platforms like YouTube. This article explores best practices for accessibility, streaming with React Suspense, adding subtitles, and hosting videos with Vercel Blob for scalable performance.
Caching is the secret to speed and scalability in Next.js.. With Cache Components and three powerful directives — use cache, use cache: private, and use cache: remote — you can cache static, personalized, and dynamic shared data with precision. This article explains how to enable caching, use each directive, and compare their behavior.
